Between Mosjön and Mo i Rana
Lot of activitys in Mosjön, lot of people, it seems like there are some kind of
fotballtournament. Stop a while and study all people mooching around.

Long time since I ride the road between Mosjön and Mo i Rana. Short cuts
etc when riding north or south from home so there have been no reason to
do that. Feels like I´m never ride here before. Of course I´ve done that,
but must been over ten years ago.

General the speedlimits are 80 kph in Norway. Innova hangs okay with the
tempo. After downhills comes uphills and Innova manage sometimes to do
just 50-60 kph and we are a little bit in way of the traffic.

Break between Mosjön and Mo i Rana

Improvement petrol consumption
Fo onehundredfiftyfift time all luggage of and fill up the 3,7 litre tank under
the seat. When leaving home bike had 1000kms on speedo and had to fill up
every 130kms in the beginning. Now, bike is runed in and consumtion is
improved a lot. Best it takes me now 170kms and the cost of petrol is not
particularly heavy.

Arctic circle raceway
Amply ten years ago was Mo i Rana an active city with lots of tourists. It
feels that then the camping ther closed, has the town in some way
degraded. Do anyway a quick tour through the city before heading north
again.

Thirty kilometres north of Mo i Rana, Arctic circle raceway. Have never
passed without dropping in and take a look at the track. Happy when
reading a sign wich tells that some BMW-carclub has a meeting there.
Park just outside and ask if I can take a glance. Stairs up to the roof where
I can see over the whole track. I also can see activitys around my Innova.
It seems they have noticed the Akrapovic exhaust on it and their looks are
cheerful.

Assorted knowledge and courage on the track. Some drivers gives it all,
while some takes it easy. Here I can stay a whole day, watch and listen,
but time is ticking and I have to leave for further riding north.

North part of the track

A Briton amongst all German

Somebody step to hard on pedals

Arctic circle
Arctic circle north of Mo i Rana, touristtrap wich is hard to pass without
make a stop. Always lot of vehicles at the parkingplace.
I like to ride here. Before heading the actic circle area, it´s thickly wooded
and at the top of the mountains, I can´t desist to reach out my bikes and
give full throttle. That I do also with the Innova.

Well, buy a ice cream at the touristcenter, sit and study the passing
people. Do not a big thing about it, ride further north, of course with full
throttle.
After the Arctic mountains it´s a long downhill, beautifull scenery with
greencolored rapids near at my right side, almost whole way down.
Someday I will give more time for this area.

Arctic circle

Sideroad to Silvervägen
Storfjord and the sideroad to Silvervägen and home. Fill up few kilometers
north of the sideroad. Chat with some tourists wich among others
wondering about the cc of the Innova. Couple of englishmen riding bikes
filmes Innova and ask questions about my Akraexhaust on it. There are
people wich understan racing also outside the track :o)

Full tank both tank and can.and then to the camping about one kilometer
north of the petrolstation. It´s only five o´clock when turning in to the
camping. Ask them if there are many cottage left to hire. My thoughts is to
manage a ride to Bodö via road 812 and then back via road E6 and Fauske.
Reserve a cottage for the guarantee sake.

South of Rognan, turnes on road 812 towards Bodö. Few kilometers and
reality comes up to, there are no change I have time to get back to the
camping in sensible time. I turn back and ride to the village Rognan, cruse
there a while and then turn back south.
Back to same petrolstation. Empty the can in the tank and fill up again the
can. Shop assistent sure wonder what I´m doing there again with my
three-fourlitres bills.

Spending evening at camping to make some grub and walks in the area. Fall
asleep at ten o´clock, very satisfied with my ridingday with Innova.

Junkerdal
Six am when Innova turnes on road Silvervägen. Uphill ten per cent to
Junkerdal. No hurry, Innova spins nicely at the hills. There are not traffic so
we make stops here and there to check out the views..
Bordering Sweden at the Junkerdal touristcentre. As usual the centre looks
more like a place of work than a place where tourists overnights in the
cottage. New cottage has also added. I´m suprised everytime passing here
that the place has survived. Well, maybe they surviving by the
wintertourists, who knows!

Uphill, Innova struggles well

Stop sometimes and check the views

Open fields at SilvervägenFirst part from the border is uphill, very long time and speedo shows
sometimes only 50 kph. On my favouritpart on Silvervägen, open fields with
small mountaintops wich gives a feeling of loneliness. I make often stops
and just lissen and enjoy the silence.

After mountains a haul home. Passing Jäckvik, it´s Sunday and the
combined store and petrolstation hasn´t open yet. Still, I have enough
petrol to manage Arjeplog.

Silvervägen

Stop sometimes and check the views

Head down and home
Coffebreak and fill up at Arjeplog. Calculate it´s my last stop at a
petrolstation and fill up both the tank and the can.
Only about 250 kms home. From here I give full throttle and head down.
Few brakes and filling up from the can. Grub at Älvsbyn and then already at
home two pm.
The luggage off, sit down outside with a cold beer in my hand and enjoy
impressions from the journey.

Considering that, middle of April at home winter and almost no riding in
couple of weeks........

pics from my backyard taken 12-15 of April

....to make a decision, take a flight and rent a scoot

Isle Mallorca is not big. For example from the capital Palma in south, after
motorway to Alcudia in north, there was only about 50 kilometres.
However, there are a mountainarea in west, small tortuous roads and they
gives many kilometres and a lot of nice riding on two wheels.
At northwest is a small village called Sa Calobra. Road to Calobra and back is an
amazing piece of engineering, one of the greatest roads I´ve ride on.

Two days of riding gave me and Kajsa(wife) 500-600 kilometres on a
Piaggio 125.

On motorway from Palma Nova. We follow the road only few kilometres and
then turn soutt on smaller roads to Port D`andtrax.

Few laps in the small village before heading north.

After Andratx we climp uphill. Small, twisty road with beautiful scenery from
the Mediteraneo sea

Stops sometimes and check out the views

Nice roads with nice tarmac.

Some kind of viewtower.

Climbing to the tower, small village down there.

Tower

Down there, Piaggio parked

Up at the tower, we can see the mountain chain we have followed.

Kajsa is afraid of hights. Hurry up down, she doesn´t like when she sees
me sit on the towers edge and dangle with my legs.

This days taget for the ride, road to Sa Calobra. Twelve kilometers of engineering. Kajsa, afraid of hights grumbles and I suggest her to wait here and I will get back here in few hours. She diclines my suggest. Propably afraid I forgott her.

Road is constructed round the mountain and as little as possible interferenced in the natur.

Down there the small village, Sa Calobra

At the village. Kajsa is happy, has survived the road to Sa Calobra. But, at this moment she don´t know that only way from the village is same way back.

Beach at Sa Calobra. There are also in the near an amazing beach somewhere, but little bit hard to get ther via caves and such.

Winter is coming and it´s time for a RR again. This summer I went for the North Cape with the Zoomer/Ruckushttp://g.co/maps/sdaur

Clock is half past three in the morning. Zoomer has topspeed 42 kms/hour and I will manage this day to get to Ivalo in North of Finland. It´s a 550 kms ride and it means early start.

First stop between Kalix and Haparanda. Sun has come up and the weather starts to getting little bit warmer.

Before Haparanda and the finnish border a new road for the bicycles. Me and Z test it.

Bordering Finland at Haparanda/Tornio

Short cut between Tornio and the road to north. Cluc Zetortractor on a ride. More than twenty of them. Z and I ride just a little bit faster than they and I have time to take a good look of every one of them

Just before Rovaniemi the traffic gets little bit more intensive on the small road. I take for the secure the bicycleroad.

North of Rovaniemi I make as usual a stop at the land of Santa Claus. It´s at the same time a point of Arctic Circle.

On the roads again. It´s afteroon now and I´m hungry. Between Sodankylä and Ivalo I make a stop for sanwiches and coffe.

Ivalo and overnight. Cold weather. At Saariselkä it started to rain a little bit and I got freesing. Also at Saariselkä I noticed the Reindeers running in the middle of the centre. It happens only at north!
At the camping at Ivalo tent costs 16 euro and the cottage only 19 euro. I´m freesing and the chose this day is easy.
At the village I buy some finnsig beer. Same time I buy some of the finnsih sausages.